"The Memoirs of Baron De Marbo" is an autobiography of an officer in Napoleon's army. The best autobiography that I have ever read. Of course, it is only my second.

When he was a young teen his aristocrat father hid him in an all girls school. One day he took him from there and enrolled him at Saint-Cyr -the military academy. His father arranged for him to be tutored by an exemplary sergeant. Instead he was paired with the sergeant's twin brother who was a drunkard, fighter and woman chaser. The rest is history.

Bang The Drum Slowly. I've read it before, but it has been a while. I like his writing a lot. If you like baseball fiction, or just baseball, it's a good read.

I'm reading To Kill a Hummingbird

It's a real buzzkill

Read "The Twelve" which is the sequel to "The Passage."

If you've read "The Passage" you know what to expect, as the book is more of the same post-apocalyptic vampire fiction. Really enjoyable, quick read, though Cronin's prose gets strained at times as he attempts to be "literary." It's still much better than the massive amounts of shit that has flooded this genre over the last 5 years or so.

Just started "Homeland," which is the sequel to Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother."

This is technically YA fiction, but it's pretty damned pertinent and timely. Set a few years past little brother, deals with an NSA style data dump and the protagonists difficult decision whether to go public with it or not. I'm only fifty pages in, and all the action has been set in the Burning Man Festival so far, which is pretty cool.

Almost done with a book called "Fearless."

It's a true story about the SEAL Adam Brown. I typically steer very clear of this type of reading materials, but my dad recommended the book and I've been reading it on my flights.

Let me tell you, this book has moved me. I tear up literally every time i read it now as we get closer to the ending, as it unfolds the life and story of a true American Hero. Typically one for strictly self-help/business type books, I couldn't have spent any better time then reading this recount of a true warrior and hero.

Highly encourage you to pick this one up. You won't be the same man when you put it back down.

Read "RailSea" by China Mieville.

Basically post apocalyptic/steampunk world that is a "rail sea." That is, everyone voyages on trains and is afraid to put their feet on the ground because... all sorts of vermin are now mutatedly huge and carnivorous.

The action is centered on a "moling" train that goes out and hunts giant moles with harpoons. This particular one's captain is in search of a great white mole... sounding familiar yet? Anyway, it's typical crazy Mieville writing that's at times hard to follow and decipher. Very fun book, though.

What should I read next?
 

I need to pick a new book. I have about 4000 books on my nook, but I have only read about 1000.

Does anyone have any suggestions from this list? I have bolded the ones I am thinking about.

Alan Furst - [Night Soldiers 01] Night Soldiers
Anna Banks - [Of Poseidon 01] Of Poseidon
Cordwainer Smith - [Instrumentality of Mankind] The Rediscovery of Man
Patrick Ness - More Than This
Anne O'Brien - Queen Defiant-A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Jonathan Barnes - The Somnambulist
Kerstin Gier - [Ruby Red Trilogy 01] Ruby Red
Mark Tufo - [Zombie Fallout 01] Zombie Fallout
Matt Bondurant - The Wettest County In The World
Michel Foucault - Discipline and Punish-The Birth of the Prison
Joseph J. Ellis - Revolutionary Summer-The Birth of American Independence
Kirsten Miller - How to Lead a Life of Crime
Lex Thomas - [Quarantine 01] Quarantine-The Loners
Lia Habel - [Gone With the Respiration 01] Dearly, Departed
Chris Bohjalian - Skeletons at the Feast
Jeremy Robert Johnson - Extinction Journals
Mitchell Zuckoff - Ponzi's Scheme-The True Story of a Financial Legend
Scott Andrew Selby - Flawless-Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History
Gregg Olsen - Starvation Heights-A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
Samuel Pepys The Unequalled Self
Tom Holland - Rubicon-The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Dan Jones - The Plantagenets-The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
Veronica Roth - Divergent
Wallace Breem - Eagle in the Snow
Ruta Sepetys - Out of the Easy
Chris Carter - [Robert Hunter 01] The Crucifix Killer

Not highbrow, but my recent foray into the new Edge of the Empire Star Wars tabletop RPG inspired me to finally read some of the Star Wars fiction out there. Doing the Thrawn series at the moment. Finished book #1, and just started book #2. They're entertaining, though obviously not great literature.

I read a book called "A Tale Dark and Grimm" by Adam Gidwitz that my son had. It's written for kids maybe 4th grade and up but it was pretty awesome. Very imaginative.

Growth Hacker Marketing - Ryan Holiday

and a John Maxwell book.

Databases Demystified

The Fort

-Bernard Cornwell

OMG I think I love you.

China Mieville is my Favorite, absolute Favorite, contemporary writer.

I have all his books on my bookself.

Compared to EmbassyTown or Perdido Street Station, Rail Sea was an easy read.

You really liked that one, check out all of his books. I suggest trying The City The City, it is a great detective novel stilling keeping that "weird" vibe he writes with and his syntax isn't too hard to follow in that book.

http://www.amazon.com/China-Mi%C3%A9...617&sr=8-2-ent

/And yes His name and the book RailSea are a tribute to Melville and Moby Dick. He has another book that kinda has hunting a giant whale in it too The Scar

During the Semester, I have to read what I'm told. Great Book I've already read this semester:

Autobiography of Franklin

Autobiography of Fredrick Douglass

Clarence by Sedgwick (1840 novel of manners)

Secret History; The Horrors of St. Domingo by Leonora Sansay (This woman had a love affair with Aaron Burr, this book is a series of fictional letters she sends to him from St. Domingo.)

The Modern Middle East by James Gelvin

Bible.